Before writing Supergirl with Milly Alcock, Ana Nogueira had also penned a Supergirl that never saw the light of day for Zack Snyder’s DCU.
The DCEU is dead, long live the DCU. That, at least, is how you could sum up the end of DC’s extended universe, which Zack Snyder steered (the DCEU) and the dawn of the one James Gunn inherited (the DCU, with the E for Extended officially gone). The first lasted a full decade, from Man of Steel in 2013 to Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom in 2023. The latter has just begun its era, initially with Superman in 2025 and now with Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl, released on July 1, 2026 in theaters.
But like any baton pass, there’s a bit of turbulence, projects announced that will never come to fruition, directions sketched that won’t bear fruit. This is particularly the case for the DCEU’s Supergirl. The character had appeared as Sasha Calle in The Flash by Andy Muschietti before… never returning. A project had indeed been launched around the heroine, as Ana Nogueira recently confirmed, the screenwriter of this shelved film, as well as the new Supergirl with Milly Alcock.
SASHA (RE)CALLE
Interviewed by Entertainment Weekly, Ana Nogueira recounted that she indeed wrote a Supergirl film centered on Sasha Calle’s version, in the wake of The Flash. After the project was scrapped, she was happy, though surprised, to be approached by James Gunn and Peter Safran to work on a new version of the character. She notes that the film we are unlikely to ever see bore little resemblance to the one Craig Gillespie made with Milly Alcock:
“That was useful to me. This kind of work requires a real phase of appropriation: you have to fully understand the range of powers, the abilities of the characters, the look of a fight and the power level you want to give them. How strong is Superman? He is as strong as the writer needs him to be. Does he have to move a planet? That’s possible. Does he have to take a monumental beating? That’s also possible. So it was very valuable to master the full extent of Supergirl’s powers.”
Ana Nogueira did acknowledge that the first of her work on the Kryptonian heroine did help her grasp a new version of the character:
“That work was useful. This kind of project involves a real ownership phase: you have to understand the full range of powers, the character abilities, the look of a fight, and the power level you want to grant them. How strong is Superman? He’s as strong as the writer needs him to be. Does he need to move a planet? That’s possible. Does he need to take a monumental beating? That’s also possible. So mastering the full extent of Supergirl’s powers was very valuable.”
Unfortunately, all of that wasn’t enough to give Supergirl a strong box-office opening. As for Sasha Calle, you’ve recently seen her on Netflix in The Rip by Joe Carnahan and she will appear in The Exorcist : Martyrs by Mike Flanagan, hitting theaters on March 10, 2027.
